Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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... less to endure from that almost total absence of human society , which renders the Arctic zone so dismal , than they had to sustain in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy a ...
... less to endure from that almost total absence of human society , which renders the Arctic zone so dismal , than they had to sustain in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy a ...
Pàgina 20
... less gigantic than those of the other continents , labour under the peculiar disad- vantage of extending across the breadth only of Africa . The Andes and the Himmaleh , those stupendous heights of America and Asia , as they traverse ...
... less gigantic than those of the other continents , labour under the peculiar disad- vantage of extending across the breadth only of Africa . The Andes and the Himmaleh , those stupendous heights of America and Asia , as they traverse ...
Pàgina 40
... the interior of the conti- nent , which Europeans could not regain for thousands of years , and one of which has only recently been made . The next expedition on record was made under less pleasing 40 KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA.
... the interior of the conti- nent , which Europeans could not regain for thousands of years , and one of which has only recently been made . The next expedition on record was made under less pleasing 40 KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA.
Pàgina 41
... less pleasing auspices . Sataspes , a Persian nobleman , had been condemned by Xerxes to crucifixion on account of some crime of which he had been guilty ; but his mother , by earnest entreaty , obtained a commutation of the sen- tence ...
... less pleasing auspices . Sataspes , a Persian nobleman , had been condemned by Xerxes to crucifixion on account of some crime of which he had been guilty ; but his mother , by earnest entreaty , obtained a commutation of the sen- tence ...
Pàgina 43
... lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a fifth than the course assigned by Major Rennell . the Nile was at one time contemplated . But the AMONG THE ANCIENTS . 43.
... lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a fifth than the course assigned by Major Rennell . the Nile was at one time contemplated . But the AMONG THE ANCIENTS . 43.
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